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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF PEERS. TpyßsbAy, MARCH 31. Earl WALDEGRAVE took the Oaths and his Seat, The tills on the table Were' forwarded in their respeCtive stages. • .The House resolved itself into a Committee, in which the examination of evide'rice in support of the PeAtions against the Orders in Council was resumed. The Witnesses examined were, ,Messrs. Oxley, Jas Palmer, William Bell, George Palmer Hink ley, James Cropper j and Pollock. A. conversation took place between Lords Auck land, Havkesbury, Holland, Erskine, the. Earls of Darnley and Lauderdale, respe&ing an answer given by Mr. Cropper, relating to the supply of grain in the country, the result of which was, that the ques tion and answer were expunged from the minutes. Mr. Brougham having< requested further time for tho examination of evidence;The House resumed. On the Motion of the DAD CHANCELLOR, an tirranif,ernent was 'made, thaf'the examination of evi dence should be further proceeded in on Monday, and that Mr. Brougham should sum up on Wednes day. Adjourned at eight o'clock till to-morrow (this day), HOUSE OF COMMONS. THURSDAY, MARCH 31. A 'Message.from the Lords acquainted the House, that their Lordships had areed to the Malt Duty and Excise Bill, the Irish `token Bill, the Croydon Canal Bill, and several private Bills. APerson from the Post Office presented at the Bar an Account of the Expenditure for the last four years, for the Establishment of Expresses between London and Dublin, amounting to the sum of .4€9,500.-- 7 .Ordered to lie . :ou the table, and to be printed. The Indi6tment3 Bill and . the Orders in Council Indeninity Bill were severally read a third time and passed. Mr. WHARTON brought up the Report of the F,ast India Trade Bill to Ireland, which Was re ceived, and the Bill,Ordered to be read a third time 6a-morrow. The IbllOwing are the names of the Members on the reduced List for trying the merits of the Dun garvon Petition : Samuel HOrrocks, Esq. Patrick C. Bruce, Esq. Ceprge Nugent, Esq. I.‘ S. Western, Esq. Hon. J. W. Grimstone Sir C ranvilic T. Calcr4ll Ceatge Knapp, Esq. Viscount Althorp jaes Markham, Esq. 13 in ' . Criffinhoolfe, Esq. Lord Forbes Scrope Barnard, Esq. H. G. Herbert, Esq. • NOMINEES. I Hon. Tames Abercrombie. &ir G. F. Hill, Bart. The Irish Warehouse Bill went through a Com mittee, apd.the Report was, ordered to be received to-morrow. The Innkeepers' Bill Was read a second time and committed, for to-morrow. The House was ordered to be called over on Tues day next, and the names of defaulters to be set aside, In order to be reported on the following day. The House having gone into a Committee to con sider of the propriety of preventing the exportation of Wool to Ireland, the Committee resolved, that it would be expedient to prevent the.exportation of any 'Wool to Ireland, before .bonds be given for the ' 'due landing thereof. The House having resumed, Aeave was given to bring in a Bill pursuant to said Resolution. REVERSIONARY GRANITE. Mr.' BA:MEE brought in a 13111 to prevent the Cirants of Places it; Reversion torn time to be lititited. The Bill was read 'a first time, and ordered to be tears a second time to-morrow. Sir JOHN NEWPOICI' moved for a return of all priices, Pl'aces, and Sinecuro, in Ireland, granted t( two or snore perionOor joint lives, with benefit 'of survivorship. The Hon. Baronet observed, that, :in the former return, five offices of a principal kind bad been omitted, . • FOTE:It said, that the last return Was made al the 26th of March, 180'0, and of course during the ►ate Administration. Sir JOIIN Ntwronr replied, that the. last return 3 forwarded from Iretand eight days before of .Bedford had been invested with the Go '`vei'lmtent.,: The motion - was •then•ogreed to. Mr ! PA RNEt.I., gave notice of a .Motion for, Mon- Osr; relating to the, Post-Office, and a certain Me -trotiel respet'iling Expresses, The Loeeds Cloth BM was read a second time, and committed forto-morrow. Sir ARTHUR WgI,LEiLLY , propowd that the Dub lin Polieetill should be new reid niecond titne— cOnnnhtod—the Report brought up—and the fur ther consideration of the Billdeferred,for a tittle ;o have tht. , merits of the till generally known. Sa.vvy wi:ihed to know whether it , Was the intention of the Hon. Baronet 'to fill up the blanks in tho'Cciratrii:tt'e. Sit Aniline WEI.LESLEY replied, that it was his intention ; and ,he .hoped WS Honourable Frielid - Wo..tici have 110 i‘ibjeeion to the arritogement Sug ' r , e.ttd Bill Was then ' , read a second time, committed, the. RePOrt hrouglit. op, received, , anti the further con . s . F.wration of the 11.eport fixed for Thursday, the 28th day of, April. /NDEMNJTY TO THE NAI3OB OF DUDE. J,ord Alia; 1.1841 D 1741111110 rose to make' his promised _motion tOr Compensation to the Nabob pi Oude, -began by neknowledging the defer.: t•r;ce fromevery individual of' that House to its Yeceilt deCi4on on the conduit of the Noble Mar-, hose government in' India bad bsen th aub- - Ica of so much animadversion. klc regietted that; the course 'of the debate upen that questidn, be I al not, though he bad risen tinee or four f•;,laght the eyecif the Chair; for bad he - been 80. totamite, he 51i61314' ba%c,then entered his solemn protest against any'sentiment that went to avow that, in the tr2nisaoions that appeared upon the Pa- Fels on the tahle,.the Noble Lord.had been animatod by it's ardent zeal for the public service. He would the House, iss be went on, :extra* from !'apes7,, ww,ild warrant him in saying, hod undergone a variety of exactions utt.dc Stu oniiorm by htelp ` pf fraud, duplicity, and injustice. Here the Noble Lord pro ceeded to read a variety of extratts tiom the Paperi on the table, and contended that there did appear in the correspondence between the Court of Direc tors and 'the Government' sufficient.' proof that the condu& of the Government in India was disapprOved of, and that they had been the aggressors; that treaties had been actually violated, and that though that House might think it right to approve of the military prowess of a Noble Lord, yet he hoped that they would not be found deficient in justice, to the injured. His Lordship, after lamenting the little interest with which questions relative to India in spired the House, and the tendency of its indiffer ence upon , such subje&s.to lower it in public estima tion, concluded with moving a series of Resolutions, the put port pf the last of which was, that it ap pears to the House, that the British GoVernment is bound in honour to re-Consider and revise. the treaty of 1801, with the Nabob of OUde, with a view to an arrangement more faiourable to' the •Nabob. . . . . Mr. .1?. DUNDAS said, that he was surprised that the House should now becalled upon to diatuss the same question which had•been already decided *on, by a Resolution, in which the last 'Resolution of the Noble Lord was not only negatived, but on which the House pronounced an opinion, approving of Lord Wellesley's Administration. He should, therefore, do little more than refer the Noble Lord to, that decision, convinced, that were he now to go over again the arguments formerly adduced, be should be trespassing unnecessarily upon the time and patience of the House. Were the House of Commons now to agree to the Noble Lord's Reso hitions, they ; would contradidt their own . decision. The Noble Lord did not shew in any part of his speech . hoW this inconsistency could be avoided. The NOble Lord had not stated to the House hoW he in tended that the Nabob should - be indemnified. If he meant that the territory which 'had . been taken from him Shotild be restored, he would find it very diffi cult to transfer the people of India from the Governor of the. East India Company to that of their old mas ters.. This could not be done, he was sure, without exciting much discontent, and, perhaps, not with out considerable resistance on their part. If. the Noble Lord meant that the compensation .should be made in the form of subsidy; he ought to have stated the mode of doing it, and to have sheWri : himself prepared to solve all the difficulties which mast pre sent themselves to every one as to the manner of giving etled to his Resolution., The .Noble Lord had' passed over in silence the force kept up upon the frontiers of Oude 'at the expence of the Company, and the Wars which, in defence of the Nabob, the Company bad entered into against the Mabrattas, which certainly ought net, to be set .out of view when the justice of the policy which was observed' in regard to him was under consideration. .He de clined now entering into a justification of Lord Wel- lesley's Administrationl he should move the previous question upon all the 'ReSolutions except the last, which he should meet with a direct negative. Mr. MARTIN took a view of the state of the parties in 1801, and of the circumstances, which led to the Treaty. He contended that there was not the smallest ground at that time for the interference of the Governor-General affairs of the Nabob, who had religiously observed all the sipulations of the Treaty concluded in 1708, by Sir John Shore. He expeeted, 'at least, that some neceisity for the violation of this Treaty would have been attempted to be established; but no such attempt had been Made, and it appeared to be.irifringed merely to giv e ' erfeet to a system of aggrandisement which Lord Wellesley had adopted, and was determined at ail events to pursue. The Kists were not even in arrear, and the Company hadderived all the advantage from the Treaty of 1708 that ever was expeCted from it. It was said, indeed, thaC by this Treaty, the Nabob wouldhave contributed as much .ashe does at pre sent. But in answer to this he stated, that the Company were obliged to keep up ; force of not less than it, and not more than: 13,000 troops for 76: lees o( rupees, to be paid by the Nabob ; and till the, subsidy was refused to be paid, which it never was, we certainly had no right whoever to seize upon his territory. We were called upon to consult the feelings,olthe natives of India, but we ought also to consider what must have been their feelings on seeing a'solenm Treaty so unnecessarily and wan tonly violated. And when it was stated that the country was in stwb a state of disorder, that all sorts of crimes were committed with impunity, it ought also to be shewn, that the security of the, British Government in India was endangered by these disorders. He concluded by declaring his intention to Seppert the Resolutions of his Noble Friend. .lhfr. THOIONTO A' lamented to see So thin an atteudauce upon a discussion so interestin g to the national charaCter. He_ thought the. House on a former night had behaved. worse, even than Lord Wellesley himself, in the manner in, which they bad 'got rid of the charges brought against him. He Was not fond of renewed debates upon the 'same question; but he thought there was better ground for renewing the debate oe the present question than on many (Altera, thougli:heilid not flatter him self that the result would be different from what it had been. The treaty which was now under dis cussion, he declared, did not deserVe that name, for to a' Treaty the assent of two parties was requisite, the:Nabob certainly never had voluntarily given his assent to that of 1801, It was. alledged, that it would be difficult to rescind the 'Treaty, but nothing should ever be considered as difficult which was 'right, and if we had any regard to justice of national charaeter, certainly some compensation ought to be granted 'to the Nabob' for the wrong he had sits tained, however difficult: it : might be to find out the proper mode of compensation. The Treaty Was said to hare originated y in friendship, but if it began in friendship -it ended in .cru'elty and injustice. The'. Noble :Marquis seemed 'to have carried a sample of.Fieneh fraternizatioo into India. The Treaty wafi 'rather a sort of, (ialliCan,hee, fn which the -Noble Marquis had squeezed the dabob to death. One might as well call a robbery cetn initted by a footpad on a traveller on IlowislOw Heath a Treaty 4fr the .Tyratit-Av he 'had desolated 'Europe should emer reach our East India possessiens, and find: the .hearts of ithe.popie.alienated from us, and our name connetied with injustice and oppres sion,' Mr. Thornton called upon the House to retie& what an :Advantage he weeld:beve Over us, When Traian put a sword into the hands of the Prefeot of the Pretoria! Bands, 'he made use of these wordA THE SUN. 301.:N 1 12,1 S rALsum AUDIAT ? LONDON, -OJAI', API:II. 1, 1808. We have seen some Letters from the Continent, On which we place the firmest reliance, which state, that in consequence of the tyrannical Decrees of BUONAPARTE, by which he has deprived France of all the benefit which she derived from .the trade of . Neutrals, the inhabitants of many parts of . that country have been reduced to .the extremity of :diS tress ; and notwithstanding the Military Despotism of the French Government; the discontents of the People have, in some of the Provinces, particularly in Britanny, been openly manifested. The inha bitants' of the -Sea-ports, the prosperity of which depended entirely upon Commerce, are, in conse quence of the total stagnation of trade, literallystarv ing. Such are the reselti of BUONAPAIITE'S endea vours to destroy the Commerce of Great Britainand • 'of the measures of retaliation which the Goterninent of this Country found it. necessary to adopt. Indeed the manner in which the French Papers, and thoie under French controul, have spoken of the British Orders in Council, have convinced us that their effects were most severely felt in Frauce and its.dey pendent States. • When we • find the llioniteur' declaiming against our Orders in' , Council, not because they deprived France of the supplies she tied to obtain through the medium of Newrals—not be cause they were infringements 'Upon the rights of Neutral Nations, but because they Would be inju rious to the trade of Great Britain, it was impossible fin us to doubt either the CffeCt which the Orders in Council had produced, or the motives which led the Moniteur to express such, generOus anxiety for the prosperity of British commerce.- • It is 'certainly a subje& of deep regret, that such numbers of inno cent individuals should bey exposed to such - extreme misery ; 'btV the fault is not with this Country. the Ruler of France will persist In his extrava gant attempts to ruin the commerce of Great' Bri tain, regardless of the sufferings of those over whom he reigns ; if the people of the Continent will sub mit to all these privations to gratify the insatiable ambition of one man, the fault is not with us. The measures which our Government:adopted were ren deied necessary by the violence of our Enemy, and that these measures have •Proved effeetive we have the acknowledgment of our Enemies themselves. A report was circulated this morning, that fur ther accounts had been received from the Cohtinent, which confirmed the intelligence of an Engagement having taken place in the Mediterranean. Upon in vestigatikg Ibis report, however, it does not appear that any fresh intelligence hits been received. 'We trust, however, that the arrival of official advices from the Mediterranean will soon remove all doubts upon the subject. Our Correspondent from Dover informs us, that th , s smugglers who have been hitherto permitted to run into creeks on the French coast for the-pur pose of loading with brandies and other goods, .not one' man nor vessel that ran over to' the coast of France within the, last ten days, has returned. We are happy to correct an error in our yester day's Paper. Adiniral RAINIER is living, and in no 4.inger, though at present confined to his apartment. I .‘ As long as I goVern well, use it in my support ; it I govern ill, use it against me." So it was with ,the people of India; if we governed them with justice and moderation, we may .expect their sup-- port-- 7 but if we oppress and tyrannize over then*. we must expeet revolt and resistance. Mr. Thorn ton,denied that the Treaty had ever . been approved of by the Court of Dire&ors, for_it was one of their grounds of complaint that the Treaty had never been, submitted to the Count All that lie individually-, ever did was to put his name to a letter, in which pleasure was expressed that the Treaty had given satisfaaiOn ; but at that time he was quite igno rant of the circumstances under which it was con, eluded. • Mr. Howarrn was not surprised at the reluEtance of the friends'of the . Noble Lord to enter fairly into a discussion of the question; and it would be happy for them and the Country if it could be for ever.bu tied in oblivion. The true grounds of the Treaty he asserted , to be the exhausted state of the rlA•easury at Calcutta, and the necessity of quartering a part of the Bengal army on the Nabob of Oude. He con demned the general system of policy i aded upon by Lord' Wellesley. Under its influence our establish m,ent in India had grown faster than Our cbaraeter ; our frontiers were extended beyond . our means of defending them ; we had 'laid ourselves open to at tack.by alienating from us the affeElion of the Na tive Powers ' • and we had accumulated a mass of debt, both a broad and at home, which there was little hope of ever being paid off. The Rouse then divided— For the Resolutions . 1 a Agiiinst them - - Rio Majority --53 Adjourned. MAIMS. ARRIVE) Dublin. 3 Waterford. Duz—t Gotten burgh, 2 Dublin, z Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS ' THIS DAY AT TWLLYK O'CLOCK. Consols ... ---- - - - - 5 hif PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 31.....-AITIVed this day ihq47 - trnahon Sloop Brig, Capt. Cl/AMEBAS, and 4/p/to,Cutter, Lieut. MA%TON, from a cruize. Saiied the Minotaur, 74 guns, Capt. BARRETT, to tilegTaStWard. Elie Linnet Cotter-brig, Lieut. TREAcy, has captured and sent into this Port die French Fishing smack L'Aimable Henri. • The President Sloop of War gives convoy instxuc tions to Vessels bound to the Brazila, and on the South Wales . Fishery ; the Thetis Frigate to those bound to Newfoundland, Canada, and Nova Scotia ; Volontaire Frigate, to the Mediterranean Trade; Melpomene Frigate to Vessels for the West Indies; Pluto Sloop of War to the Downs, and Ant Schooner to _Gnornsey and Jersey. CO WEs, MAnc 31.—Last •evening arrived here the Knyphausen Hoy. Friendschap, JOHALTNA JAN' SEi master, from Faro, witOi cargo of fruit, bound for Hull ; out tea weeks, arid - without news. The long easterly winds prevent any arrivals here from the westward, which deprives us of all news. SIIEERNFSS, MARCIS 3!.—Sailqd His Majesty's . Ship 'Tartarus with a Convoy for Gottenburgh. * 4 : La Loire and Success have made the preparativ 6 Signal for sailing with the Greenland Convoy Arrived His Majesty's Gun-brig Escort, arid pr ceeded to the Piaory, at Long Reach, with the re tinue and baggage of Sir JAMES SAUMAILEZ, WIIOSO Flag is hoisted on board that Ship, and will proceed to the Baltic the first fair wind: The Discovery is brought down from Shepherd's Creek to the Dock-yard, to be fitted as a Convia sblip 3 the Convicts to be employed in repairing tho Dock-yard. Mr. W. WILD; who was appointed Mting PnrSer in the Cr4izer, is confirmed to that Sloop; and gr. S. O. WEBB, whose appointment was to the Cruiter , is exchanged to the Alaart date Danish Brig), at Qbatharn. HALr•PAST FIVE. Came down an outwaxd -bound East indiamau. 'Passed by for the River about 20 Sail of Collion. " * flis Majesty's Ship Dittatcrr is recalled back to ra• ceive some more stores. DEAL, MARCH 31.—Sailed thrqugh the DOWili the Huddart and ihe Jane; Duchess of Gurdon.Eo Indiamen for Portsmouth. Sailed this morning his Majesty's Ship Osprey; with the outward-hound , Lt. under convoy for Portsmouth. The following intelligence is from an Chtcer9 l. tha Fuittode ,Fligate, arrived at Cove Hartwig , near Cork. " Covu, blsitch 23.—We have just arrived . bere after a cruize of six. Weeks, between Ireland ani)ll36 Western Islands'; boarded a number of Ships,. poi have only found means to detain one Ainerieaa, with a cargo of logwood •and cotton. There are number of French Privateers out.—The C'artitrian has taken a French East Indianian, worth Jek3o,oo°' STATEMENT,OF Tlll DISTRIBUTION Or 1116 BRITISSI NAVAL FORCE TO THIS DAY' , Line s o is Fri; Sys. I (... 0 In the English 'dr Irish ? 13 1 2 7 1° Channel, - _ ' s Dowi.s aril North Sea 4 * 1 6 P 8 Spaiii,Vortupt &Gioral.2l 2 liiltditerliil4gtil& PiL,liiiKe 14 I 1 l i I 21 Coast of A oritat - - o i 0 1 4 West !Wks -aid Passage 2. - A 1 6 I 3 1 larnaica Station . r t 8 I l?' America &Newtbundland : I so 1, , , , Cape of Good Hope, arc. 6 1 1 S 0 On Expeditions •- 13 o I 4 ° East Indies and Passage S 2. i s 7 Total at Sea - 88 11 I 1 7 1 159 fn Port and fitting 6 45 59 GJard-Ships - 3 2 Hospital 4 Prison Ships 28 3 Total in commission :ill 173 i Building - 5 6 In ordinary - - 54 I . 49 55 4 3 162 Sg Total 261 STATL of THI ORD Portsmouth - - 1 31 Plymouth'4l Chatham - - 14 sllCtfilso4 • • I River a 14X.i raneous - I 36 INA.It AT 1 Total s 4 I 307 1 Acti 252 OSr. o 1 28 'fot. l a 4 Ii 79 0 l ob %If sus 3$ I 21(' 3 Cutt.o7STEStakzo".--A fine little girl , thr ee y' old, the daughter of •Mrs. Tenscone, a wid" t `Yi ',; ,„. port er m e, - was stolen fro the doo r y ' bell parent yesterday'morning, and has not sil'trrb of 3 recovered.. The child was seen in the nt middle-aged woman in Oxford-street, ny a if -- h id who live 4 nextdoor to Mrs. Penstone., bu t s " e' no suspicion: of it having been clandestineliobta.od. ed, and it was snot until the child had, been mi Mittl n a that.slie Oommtinicated what she had seem. it 'lt boy was also taken troth. the door of Mr. Rf Berwick-street, on Wednesday m f orning, and having been stripped of his clothes , he wwadl et , A The door of his parent at ten o'clock at nigh l * o f woman has been taken into custody on s'' c ' , 1 101 a the latter offence, in con of it ol er been found possessed of afrock supposed to bO jfig to the child. :at At,cideen,On Friday a th d e i s l u t t o h f n u e lt w . a p t o a tat T es un tem, the prLduce of a garden in, that, nellitlu ° `T . teci They were planted on the tst of Janorj., and 111— without any artificial heat, wtreyr:lruhreciseiiro,eiii.,